AT&T Poised to Shatter Quarterly Smartphone Sales Record on iPhone 4S Surge

[ncaissie]

In Canada it is 3 years. The problem is if you are 1 year in and move away or loose your job you have to pay the full 2 years $60 X 24 months = $1440 to break your contract.
On a $500-$850 phone. It sucks ass. Then on the flip side I paid almost $1000 for my 3GS with an extra w. and was a customer for 3 years anyway. So I got an Xperia Play on a 3 year contract then my wife says I don’t want to be tied to Rogers.<<Face palm>> LOL now you tell me.
I use AT&T while I’m in Florida on holidays and the coverage sucks ass.
iOS rocks. I'm on the verge of buying a Macbook pro.

 

[Glideslope]

LOL at American mobile phone contracts lining AT&T's pockets.

$2000 / 2 years

Just wait till the EU is toast 3 years from now.

 

[Tiger8]

LOL at American mobile phone contracts lining AT&T's pockets.

$2000 / 2 years

Not to defend 'American' companies, but your numbers are wrong.

The 16 GB 4s is $650, you pay $200 upfront, and $450 are subsidzed over the 2 years, that's $18.75 a month in phone subsidy, following your example, AT&T is getting: $2000 - $450 = $1550 over the two years. Still a lot of money, but not $2,000

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The difference being - cell service in the US is a borderline government supported monopoly while Apple exist in a highly competitive computer market.

Hate all you want, again not a fan of AT&T at all (moved to Sprint), but I give them full credit for taking a bold bet on a then-unknown little device called the iPhone. Apple is amazing, but if it wasn't for AT&T working with apple to absorb cost and make a profit, it would have been a flop.

 

[inkswamp]

LOL at American mobile phone contracts lining AT&T's pockets.

$2000 / 2 years

LOL at European gasoline prices and tax rates that blah blah blah.

I could play this game with you, but why would I want to disrupt your sense of superiority?

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Price it takes to have a national network. It's a lot cheaper to build out a network in Germany then in the United States.

Cheaper overall, sure, but cheaper per person? Doubtful. The only reason anything in Europe is ever "cheap" is because of their very high tax rates leading to subsidies. I'd argue that it all pretty much evens out in the end. Things are not inherently cheaper in Europe compared to the U.S. or anywhere else. It all comes down to where the money comes from. Apparently, some Europeans are too dim to notice the large sums of taxes taken from their paycheck and assume things are cheaper. Silly buggers.

 

[AppleScruff1]

It's true of the original iPhone. Not sure if that went beyond that. But I know it's not current now.

The article I read didn't state if there are any current kick backs of that nature, but it went on for the first 3 years that AT&T had the iPhone. But AT&T was the thief, not Apple.

 

[Apple 26.2]

LOL at American mobile phone contracts lining AT&T's pockets.

$2000 / 2 years

T-Mobile's, Vodafone's and O2's top plans are even more expensive AND you don't get unlimited data, whilst many plans cap your speeds down to GPRS after just 300 MBs.

Anyways, didn't AT&T get rated the worst carrier just a few weeks ago? I know I'm sick of their awful customer service... seems I know more about the communications technologies used than they do.

 

[AidenShaw]

Anyways, didn't AT&T get rated the worst carrier just a few weeks ago? I know I'm sick of their awful customer service... seems I know more about the communications technologies used than they do.

AT&T could never run an ad campaign like Verizon's "Can you hear me now?".

The answer would be "No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. ....".

 

[hexonxonx]

T-Mobile's, Vodafone's and O2's top plans are even more expensive AND you don't get unlimited data, whilst many plans cap your speeds down to GPRS after just 300 MBs.

Anyways, didn't AT&T get rated the worst carrier just a few weeks ago? I know I'm sick of their awful customer service... seems I know more about the communications technologies used than they do.

I have received top notch customer service each and every time I've had to call. My iPhone service has been great since I left Sprint to come to AT&T to get that first iPhone in 2007.

 

[drober30]

It would be nice to see some of the these profits passed backed to their customers with lower rate plans.

I cant believe they charge $36 to activate a new iPhone when they really do nothing.

 

[acidfast7]

T-Mobile's, Vodafone's and O2's top plans are even more expensive AND you don't get unlimited data, whilst many plans cap your speeds down to GPRS after just 300 MBs.

Anyways, didn't AT&T get rated the worst carrier just a few weeks ago? I know I'm sick of their awful customer service... seems I know more about the communications technologies used than they do.

I don't know about where you are. But, I can get as much 4G/LTE as I want on a prepaid plan. Who would use Vodaphone/O2 when Telia/TELE2 exist?